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    Battery power slow down

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by aan310, Nov 2, 2008.

  1. aan310

    aan310 Notebook Virtuoso

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    So when i unplug fron power... all my games lag.
    Its not my CPU cause i have custom setting from RMclock...
    So some how my gpu is getting downclocked?
    how can i stop this, but not all the time (ex, turn it on/off of downclocking)

    Thanks
     
    aan310, Nov 2, 2008
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    wackydude1234 Notebook Evangelist

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    the computer downclocks itself to stop it consuming as much energy i guess the only way to stop this is by putting it on high performance. althought it'll kill the battery in under 30 minutes.
     
    wackydude1234, Nov 2, 2008
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    You can change power settings in Control Panel. Just change the settings for the battery profile.
     
    Budding, Nov 2, 2008
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    Ok.

    look in the power profiles, and check that you are running on balanced/high performance.

    Look in the settings for the profile and then look under the settings for graphics card. vista could be set to downclock your graphics card to save power on battery.
     
    mr__bean, Nov 2, 2008
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  5. aan310

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    well, like i said, i haev it on a custom one, and im using RM clock... and in control panel, there is no options for the throttling of the gfx card...

    i have xp
    (10 chars)

    EDIT 1:
    got it, its Nvidia powermizer...


    can i just manage that my self with rivatuner? (set custom clocks then manually set them?)

    EDIT 2:
    mmk, even with powermizer off... it still downclocks it.

    so, i figured out what it does, but not how to stop it.

    When i go to battery power, it uses the clocks in the "standard 2d" part of riva tuner...

    The problem is, the max it will go in standard 2d is about half the normal clocks...
     
    aan310, Nov 2, 2008
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    aan310 Notebook Virtuoso

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    grumble... help?
     
    aan310, Nov 2, 2008
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    You need to do a registry edit to entirely disable powermizer... Search for the "disable powermizer *tested*" thread to know what to do...
     
    JosePerez, Nov 2, 2008
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    there is an option in nvidia control panel to do this though...

    Ok... ill do it any way.. :)
    Thanks
     
    aan310, Nov 2, 2008
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